Creator:
Commission of Professors of Adult Education
Inclusive Dates:
1950- 1985
Abstract:
Organizational records (correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, documentation of conferences and other meetings, membership files, reports, task force and committee papers, and printed material) of the Commission of Professors of Adult Education. Correspondents whose letters are of greatest depth and duration include Robert A. Carlson, Mary Jane Even, William Griffith, Cyril Orvin Houle, Roy John Ingham, Malcolm Shepherd Knowles, Alan Boyd Knox, Howard McClusky, Wayne Schroeder and Wilson B. Thiede. Also present are subject files for organizations including the Adult Education Association, the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education, the Association of University Evening Colleges, the Center for the Study of Liberal Education for Adults, the National Association for Public and Continuing Education, and the National University Extension Association. There are also general and regional printed materials as well as some audio-visual materials (film, slides, and tape recordings).
Type of Material:
Agendas (administrative records)
Annual reports.
Audiocassettes.
Correspondence.
Film reels.
Minutes (administrative records)
Newsletters.
Reports.
Slides (photographs)
Sound recordings.
Subject:
Adult educators.
Adult education
Adult education.
Adult education -- North America.
Creator:
Crusade for Opportunity (Syracuse, N.Y.)
Inclusive Dates:
1953- 1969
Abstract:
Anti-poverty community action program in Syracuse, New York. Collection includes press releases, reports, correspondence, financial materials, newsletters, corporate office files, more.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Clippings (information artifacts)
Corporation records.
Correspondence.
Essays.
Financial records.
Galley proofs.
Instructional materials.
Interviews.
Invoices.
Legal documents.
Maps (documents)
Memorandums.
Microfilms.
Newsletters.
Payrolls.
Personnel records.
Photographs.
Questionnaires.
Reports.
Subject:
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- History -- 20th century.
Syracuse (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- 20th century.
Activism and social reform
Adult education
New York State
African Americans -- Civil rights -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Education.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Children -- Education.
Children -- Education (Preschool)
Civil rights movements -- New York (State) -- Syracuse.
Community centers.
Continuing education.
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States.
Education -- Integration.
Education -- Segregation.
Employment, Summer.
Equality -- United States.
Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention.
Poor -- United States.
Poverty -- New York (State)
Public welfare -- United States.
Youth -- employment.
Creator:
Houle, Cyril Orvin, 1913-
Inclusive Dates:
1929- 1986
Abstract:
Papers of the American educator, consultant, lecturer, and author
in the field of adult education. Collection consists of manuscripts, drafts, reports, interview tapes and transcripts,
speeches, correspondence, reviews, films, memorabilia and publications that Houle collected.
Type of Material:
Awards.
Sound recordings.
Correspondence.
Drafts (documents)
Manuscripts (document genre)
Memorabilia.
Pamphlets.
Reports.
Reviews (documents)
Speeches (documents)
Transcripts.
Subject:
The Inquiring mind.
Patterns of learning.
Educators.
Adult education
Adult education.
Educators, United States.